The Luck Of The Irish

Power is a hardboiled, ambitious newsman in this delightful fantasy. Power's world is turned upside down by a precocious leprechaun, Kellaway, in one of the character actor's most impressive and hilarious roles. (Kellaway had earlier enacted a similar role in the comedy-fantasy I MARRIED A WITCH, portraying a long-dead warlock.) Power, on a trip to Ireland, stumbles across Kellaway when his car breaks down on a lonely road. Kellaway sends him to a nearby inn where he meets Baxter, the owner. She relates Irish lore and how there are many pots of gold buried thereabouts by leprechauns. Late that night Power spots Kellaway and follows him to a small glen, wrestling hi...